BUSINESS ENGLISH

This book includes practical materials of Business English initially designed for students of the Institute of International Management of Tomsk Polytechnic University. Taking into account the topics presented and the urgent need to introduce business technologies in modern scientific, educational and industrial context, the textbook can also be applied to students of technical educational …

Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Policy Brief Series

In the last few years, remittances sent to low-income countries have been noticeably increasing, reaching about USD 404 billion in 2013 (World Bank, 2014), more than three times the level of Official Development Assistance

Introduction to Information & Communication Technology

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HEALTHCARE FINANCE

In today’s healthcare environment, where financial realities play an important role in business decision making, it is vital that managers at all levels under- stand the basic concepts of healthcare finance and how these concepts are used to enhance the financial well-being of the organization. In this chapter, we introduce readers to the book, including its goals and organization. Fur- th…

Accounting

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Database management systems

Today, more than at any previous time, the success of an organization depends on its ability to acquire accurate and timely data about its operations, to manage this data effectively, and to use it to analyze and guide its activities. Phrases such as the information superhighway have become ubiquitous, and information processing is a rapidly growing multibillion dollar industry. The amount …

Envisioning the National Health Care Quality Report

The quality of health care received by the people of the United States falls far short of what it should be (Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry, 1998; Chassin and Galvin, 1998). A large body of literature documents serious quality problems. There is a gap (some say a “chasm”) between the health care services that should be provided based on cu…

Gaining Control of Cellular Traffic Accounting by Spurious TCP Retransmission

Packet retransmission is a fundamental TCP mechanism that ensures reliable data transfer between two end nodes. Interestingly, when it comes to cellular data accounting, TCP retransmissins create an important policy issue giving rise to a tension between ISPs accounting for network resource consumption, and users only being aware of the application layer data. Regardless of the policies, we fi…

The Art of Networking

There is hardly any field of educational action where the notion of network(ing) has not been postulated as a guid- ing principle and a key competence of practitioners at all levels of the hierarchy. Networks and networking are gen- erally considered to have high potential for solving struc- tural problems in education. In the publication The Art of Networking a particular type of educational …

WIRELESS NETWORK HACKS & MODS FOR DUMMIES

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Management Accounting

This book is written for the first and second levels of undergraduate degree study in accounting and business studies, or equivalent introductory accounting courses where an understanding of accounting is a basic requirement. It is based on the author’s experience in providing a first level management accounting text and takes account of helpful suggestions from reviewers of three successiv…

Project Management

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Economic Development

E. Wayne Nafziger analyzes the economic development of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and East-Central Europe. This book is suitable for those with a background in economics principles. Nafziger explains the reasons for the recent fast growth of India, Poland, Brazil, China, and other Pacific Rim countries and the slow, yet essential, growth for a turnaround of sub-Saharan Africa. The fifth …

INTRODUCTION TO ACCOUNTING

In all activities (whether business activities or non-business activities) and in all organizations (whether business organizations like a manufacturing entity or trading entity or non-business organizations like schools, colleges, hospitals, libraries, clubs, temples, political parties) which require money and other economic resources, accounting is required to account for these resources. In …

THE DEPRESSION IN TRADE

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Business Driven Technology

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Enhancing Data Systems to Improve the Quality of Cancer Care

The National Cancer Policy Board (board) concluded in its April 1999 re- port, Ensuring Quality Cancer Care, that based on the best available evidence, some individuals with cancer do not receive care known to be effective for their condition. The magnitude of the problem is not known, but the board believes it is substantial (IOM 1999a). Why do we know so little about the nature and extent of …

Building Information Modeling

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WIRELESS NETWORKING IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD

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Inventory Accounting

The classical view of inventory data collection is that of employees filling out forms of various kinds throughout the warehouse and production areas, which are then forwarded to a central data entry location, where hordes of clerks keypunch the data into a central computer database. Although this was a reasonably accurate view of the situation in the past, the types of systems available for co…

Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor

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THE PIVOT OF CIVILIZATION

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NCFRP Report 8: Freight-Demand Modeling to Support Public-Sector Decision Making

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Regional Economic Development in Theory and Practice

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INFORMATION SECURITY: 2ND EDITION

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SHRP 2 Report S2-R16-RR-1: Strategies for Improving the Project Agreement Pr…

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Insurance and Risk Management

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THE NEW UNIONISM

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Stakeholder Theory

We begin this chapter by outlining the problems that stakeholder theory was originally conceptualized to solve and the “basic mechanics” that we believe underlie the development of the theory during the last thirty years. We turn in the next sections to the arguments of Milton Friedman, Michael Jensen, Michael Porter, and Oliver Williamson, often cited as opponents of stakeholder theor…

Introduction to Cost Accounting

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